Lee, Erika
Summary: "This book is a stirring account of the ordinary people and extraordinary acts that made Asian America and the young people who are remaking America today"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0495 LEEAnderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)
Summary: "This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 ANDLevithan, David
Summary: "A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEVSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISDoeden, Matt
Summary: A choose-your-own-adventure in which the reader can proceed as a knight facing a female beast, explore the future with an android prince, or chase super-stardom in a modern version of the classic fairy tale. Includes a history of Beauty and the Beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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Summary: Old MacDonald loves his phone, he thinks it works a charm, Now all the animals have phones too, how will he run his farm? Sing along as Old MacDonald's farm falls into chaos! How will the animals learn to balance their screen time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILLittle, Troy
Summary: Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LITMiranda, Lin-Manuel
Summary: Broadway hit musical from Tony Award-winning composrer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Hamilton" is the acclaimed new hip-hop musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW HamCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HAMKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 KINIvey, Eowyn.
Summary: "Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books 2012
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Summary: Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas LLC] 2022
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Summary: This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--White Snow is a secret agent in Good Prince's army, looking for a computer with secret codes for a bomb; Mrs. White desperately searches for her runaway daughter Snow; and Charming, towed by his seven loyal sleddogs, goes to rescue his friend and mentor Meteorologist Snow-White, who is trapped in a raging blizzard in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUNHoena, B. A.
Summary: In this adventure a giant has to figure out what to do with an annoying human boy named Jack who climbed up a beanstalk: send him back, put him to work, or eat him--and the choice is up to the reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: A choose-your-own-adventure in which the reader can proceed as Princess Rose locked in a medieval tower, as accident-prone party-girl Mollie Maleficent, or as Aurora, attempting to save martian Prince Phillip from Maleficent's alien minions. Includes a history of Sleeping Beauty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUNWeir, Ivy Noelle
Summary: "Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and 'friends.' When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: When the young witch, Princess Swampelina, loses her wand in the bog, a beautiful (ugh!) butterfly offers to retrieve it if she will be his friend, but after avoiding him the princess soon finds the butterfly helpful and even rather fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITBeard, Hilary
Summary: A young adult adaptation of Tim Madigan's The Burning, which discusses the circumstances of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 BEAZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBGrant, Kesha
Summary: One day when Kaden uses some experimental VR tech and a rogue artificial intelligence called S.N.O.W. takes over and imprisons the boy in her digital realm, his best friend Gabby enters the game to confront S.N.O.W. in an effort to save her friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022